In April, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) achieved a monthly volume of 52.3 million contracts and a turnover worth 2.42 trillion yuan, accounting for 48.46% and 41.78% in all of China's three commodity futures exchanges. The trading volume and turnover increased by 179.69% and 378.23% respectively from a year ago. The open interest at the end of the month was 6.48% lower than last month to 2.02 million contracts. The total trading volume and turnover from January to April 2008 in DCE was 210.44 million contracts and 9.93 trillion yuan. The trading volume and turnover increased by 222.87% and 533.47% from a year ago.
In this month, the trading of China's futures market as a whole remained firm and steady, according to the latest statistics from China Futures Association. The total volume and turnover of futures contracts in this month increased 144.6% and 91.51% respectively over the same period last year to 107.93 million contracts, worth 5.80 trillion yuan, decreased by 14.99% and 22% respectively from last month. The total trading volume and turnover of the national futures market in the first four months were 404.34 million contracts?worth 24.41 trillion yuan, up 180.44% and 187.4% respectively from the pervious year?